Talk:List of Babylon 5 episodes

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[edit] Remove wikipedia articles for each episode?

Maybe I'm begging for a beating by asking this here, but: as a user of wikipedia, I think the "One article per each episode" is sort of overwhelming. I don't like it for a few reasons.:

  • It clutters up the namespace (example: while searching for "The Summoning", the video game, I end up at "The Summoning", the Bab5 episode. Given the huge number of episodes, that's significant.
  • Each individual article doesn't contain all that much data, but has lots of metadata.
  • The entire project is completely duplicative of The Lurker's Guide. If this was on a Bab5 wiki it would make sense, but I think it's a hell of a lot of overhead to jam into a general-purpose encyclopedia.

Am I entirely alone in this, or are there other people who think that this might be overdoing it a bit? If there's consensus on this, I'd like to propose the following:

  1. Change all wikilinks in List of Babylon 5 episodes to point to their corresponding Lurker's Guide entries.
  2. Mass delete all of the wikilinked per-episode articles, perhaps making an exception for the pilot movie.

Thoughts? I also cross-posted this proposal over on Talk:Babylon 5. Nandesuka 19:08, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

  • Sorry for the late reply, I only saw this today... I'd have to say that I totally disagree with changing wikilinks to point off Wikipedia because since there is no original research on Wikipedia everything here is already out there somewhere. The point of Wikipedia is collate useful information here rather than simply point people elsewhere. That said, I also don't think it's particular useful to have one article for each episode. What I think would be best is to organise the episodes into omnibus articles (as per WP:FICT) for each season, rather like they have for Lost season 1 episode guide then put the Lurkers guide in as an external link at the end. -- Lochaber 13:46, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
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